TripAdvisor Reviews Super Hotel Sapporo Susukino

Travel Blogs from Sapporo

... situation and try to act as Japanese as possible.... but not me. I taught the teachers including the VP 'down it'. They loved it. They taught me the Japanese version too along with the word for hangover (二日酔い). So when the VP took a sip of his half finished beer I took a punt and started saying "down it, down it, down it". And lo behold... he downed it!! As soon as he finished he ordered 2 more, gave me one and we down a whole ...

... smoothly, but canceling our phones turned out to be quite the hassle. As soon as Atsuo mentioned to the girl we were there to cancel, she made sure to inform us it would take between 2 - 3 hours, because they needed time to figure out how much our final bill would be. We signed all of the paperwork and then got sent away while they did their calculations. She assured us that when we returned we would just have to pay and that I could handle that on my own. She even gave us ...

... of the characters. I only recognized the character for the T.V. Tower but I'm sure if we read Japanese we would have learned what all the others represented. We watched some skiers from the bottom and then walked a little higher to another vantage point. We only saw a few jumps and then there was a break. Once it looked like things were going again we decided to try and go a little higher up the hill. This was actually quite a feat since there's usually a ...

... with the same intonation). Friday I started baking cookies for our Christmas party at church on Sunday and then had to cut it short to go out to dinner with everyone again. I had used some chopsticks to fashion a cooling rack for the cookies, which just adds to my list of ways to use things in Japan that aren't for their real purpose (like banana bread in the rice cooker). This time we ended up at a Spanish restaurant, which I noticed right away because of the ...

... confusion when we first ordered but they sent over a server who spoke English, who ended up having to come over more than once before everything was resolved. Chris was in charge of grilling the vegetables and we were all on our own for the meat. He did a pretty good job. Betsy and I are headed off in the morning and Chris and I are currently waiting for an e-mail about the birth of our new nephew or niece, so I hope I can get some sleep amidst so much excitement! ...